The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1887-02-25

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West Virginia legislature Tuesday
gave Ex-Governor Foreman 40 votes
for senator. j. N. Camden had 38 sup
p0rters. Friday Is the time fixed for
adjournment of the session.
| William L. Brigham, a prominent
lawyer of Boston, has been arrested
for the ENLIGHTENMENT of $4,000 from
two old ladies for whom he was trus-
tee. He invested the money in a nom
paying enterprise in the south.
1t transpires that Colonel James III.
Rion, who died In South Carolina last
December, declared OH his death-bed
that he was the son OF the dauphin Of
France, who would have been Louis
XVII. but for the French revolution.
The waters of Grand river at LYONS.
Mich, rose five inches Friday morn
ing. An investigating committee sent
by the legislature will recommend the
immediate appropriation of 81 900 for
the relief of eighty-nine homeless fami-
lies.
Lester Wallack gratefully declined a
benefit rendered by Booth, Barrett.
Jefferson, and Mrs. Langtry, in the
production of "lIamlet," which might
have realized $4,000. He offered to
accept dinner on his return from
Florida.
Luther Beecher, an eccentric million
aire of Detroit. offers to sell the Biddle
house for $5OO,OOO and devote the
amount to the charitable institutions
of that city; or he will rent it for $50
600 and give the money for the same
purpose.
The citizens of Dingle, Ireland, bar
ricaded the roads against Il squad of
| police sent to make evictiOns. The
| officers were at first repulsed, but sub
| Sequently cleared the way by clubbing
their rifles. Several men and women
were injured.
In the matter of the recent disastrous
| collision at Republic, on the Balti.
more and Ohio road. the coroner's jury
lays the blame wholly upon the com
pany, which was using a poor engine
and employed careless or uneXperi-
enced trainmen.
Dairymen at Elgin, Illinois, find
that the oleomargarine law has largely
diminished the demand by Chicago
manufacturers for creamery butter.
1t is thought that the genuine article
will not bring over 80 cents per pound
for years to come.
The court at Sioux City, Ia, imposed
fines ranging from $3.50 to 5000 against
the Saloon-keeperS OF that place. or
dered them to be committed until the
amounts were paid, and also that their
places be sealed by the sheriff. Only
one saloon remains.
The bonded warehouse of Zell,
Schwabacher 81 Co., at Peoria, Illinois,
has been closed because an employe
filled the visitors barrel with unstamp-
ed whisky. The firm has sent it's at
torney to Washington with afiidavits
explaining the matter.
The police of Cincinnati have arrest
ed man giving his name rs Charles
Il. Baker, OIL suspicion of being the
fellow who has regularly pinched ladies
ON the street at night until their cheeks
or arms were black and blue. He was
pointed out by victim.
Edward ID. Tucker, a commercial
traveller for Chicago wholesale house,
has been lodged in the Joliet peniten-
tiary for term of three years for big
amy committed in Livingstone county.
He had procured divorce in Utah,
but his first wife had set it aside.
The meat company organized by the
Marquis de MOres proposes to shut
Chicago dressed beef out of New York |
by making every retail butcher stock |
holder. Should this scheme fail, the
monopoly threatens to open several |
hundred shops OH its own account.
Samuel Treat, district Judge at st.
Louis, has resigned his position, to
devote his time to private business. |
He is II years OF age, and was appoint |
cd by President Pierce. Amos M.
Thayer, judge Of the state circuit |
court, has been appointed to the va
cancy.
clerk in the mailing division of the |
('hipann nnctnffipp cnoIIra1 biS f,Iopp nv /
passing Il civil-service examination, |
and speedily obtained a discharge by |
Offering to present Postmaster Judd |
with $50 in case he was advanced in |
position.
The death of Mrs. General Hunter
in Washington is announced by tele-
graph. She was the second daughter
of John Kinzie, the pioneer Indian
trader, and was born on the site of |
Chicago in 1907. She was married to
Lieutenant Hunter at Fort Dearborn
in 1928.
The defalcatiOn of Warden Howard,
of the southern Indiana penitentiary,
is now placed at $150,000, but the |
amounts out of which convicts have
been cheated cannot be ascertained. |
EX-Speaker Jewett is accused of ac-
cepting brides to secure the pardon of |
cOnvicts.
The storm which has just subsidized
along the Rocky mountain range from
the British line to New Mexico is be-
lieved to have caused the death of %
per cent. of the cattle Passengers
travelling from Denver to Lincoln, Mon
day, saw beeves buried to their heads
in the snow.
The legislative committee appointed
to investigate the management of the
West Virginia penitentiary, taking
into consideration the growing senti- |
ment against contract-convict labor, |
sufficient land near the prison to raise
all vegetables REQUIRED.